Civil Survey Notes - Cragg

 

Cragg

In the Civil Survey for Cragg a John Ryan is listed. John Ryan is almost the equivalent of John Smith in Tipperary. In the Griffiths Valuation in the 1840s there are over 1300 John Ryans recorded.

However this particular John Ryan was an Esquire and owned close to 3000 acres (not just in Cragg obviously). As far as I know he was the 2nd son of William O’Mulryan of Annagh – Chieftain of the O’Mulryans of Owney.

At Cragg he is recorded as owning Cragg Castle in the Civil Survey “Upon the sd. lands of Crage standeth test Walls of a Castle & a Barbicon & the ruines an old mill, and are at prsent totally wast wthout any Improvement or accomodacon”

His older Brother Conor O’Mulryan died in 1640 and so at the time of the Civil Survey which is supposed to record the year 1640 but is dated 1654-56 he should have been the Chief of the O’Mulryans.

Come the transplantation decrees of 1656 we find in Simingtons Transplantation to Connacht pg 125 / 261 -  Ryan, John Fitzwilliam; of Craig in Tipperary is recorded as being due to receive land in two locations. 500 acres in Ahascragh and 168 acres in Aughrim.

Fitz William backs up that we have the right person – ie son of William Ryan.

Did he ever take that up I’m not sure?

Interestingly come the Hearth Money Rolls of 1666-67, there is a John Ryan recorded still in the townland. Now obviously it is such a common name that we can’t be sure if it is him.

 

There are still Ryans living in the townland in the 1911 census.

 

https://thetipperaryantiquarian.blogspot.com/2024/08/hearth-money-rolls-cragg.html

Another interesting note re John Ryan is this gravestone in Kilconnell Abbey recording a William Ryan who died in 1773. Kilconnell being in the same Barony as where John Ryan of Cragg was to be transplanted. It was erected by William’s Son Hugh.

John Ryan of Cragg’s father was William and his Uncle Hugh, obviously it is not possible that it is them by the timeline but could names have been passed down to subsequent generations?